EASTENDERS star Jacqueline Jossa’s husband Dan Osbourne has revealed the real reason why he was not by her side for the three-month scan.

Jacqueline Jossa's husband Dan Osbourne, who shot to fame in the ITV reality show The Only Way Is Essex, confessed to missing the couple's most recent baby scan due to work commitments.

Speaking to OK! Magazine, Dan explained he was absent because he had a performance in Clacton-on-Sea.

He said: “I missed it because I was in pantomime in Clacton-on-Sea. I had to wait patiently by my phone for Jacqueline to let me know how it had gone. It wasn’t nice being away from it, but there was nothing I could do.”

Jacqueline, who plays Lauren Branning in EastEnders, admitted the first scan didn’t go to plan at all and said she felt “pretty stressed out” at the time.

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She explained: “I wasn’t able to enjoy the first scan at all really. My appointment was a few hours before I was due to be at work and I felt so sick that I had to get my driver to pull over so I could throw up.”

Unfortunately, the day got worse for the actress when she was dropped off at the wrong entrance and had to walk to her appointment.

“I went to King’s College Hospital in London, which I didn’t realise was massive, so I got dropped off in the completely wrong spot then had to walk for 20 minutes to find the building I was supposed to be in. By the time I went in for the scan I felt pretty stressed out,” she said.

When Jacqueline saw her unborn child for the first time she admitted to feeling “sad” that her second child looked nothing like her two-year-old daughter Ella.

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Jacqueline admitted the first scan didn’t go to plan at all nd said she felt “pretty stressed out”

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The 25-year-old admitted: “The first thing I thought was, it doesn’t look like Ella, which made me sad. I know it’s ridiculous because you can’t really tell what they look like from a three-month scan.

“But it made me feel quite emotional because Ella looks so much like me and I’m worried this baby won’t. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I could possibly love this child as much as Ella, but I Googled it and saw a lovely saying - mothers don’t halve their love, they double it. That put my mind at rest a bit.”

In 2017, Jacqueline and reality star Dan, 26, tied the knot, but Dan said marriage has not changed their relationship.

“It doesn’t really feel any different to before, it’s just that now we have a piece of paper saying that we’re married,” Dan said.

“We’d both love to go back and do the day over again, though. It was the best day ever!”

Elsewhere, Jacqueline’s onscreen character, Lauren, has been battling with emotions ever since her sister Abi Branning (Lorna Fitzgerald) was declared brain dead following their horrific fall from the Queen Vic roof last year.

EastEnders confirmed that Abi’s final scenes will air this Friday, even though Max Branning (Jake Wood) was still convinced she could make a miraculous recovery.

In scenes aired recently, a desperate Max barricaded himself in Abi’s room and refused to let the staff enter.